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A13878
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A learned and a very profitable exposition made vpon the CXI. psalme
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Travers, Robert, fl. 1561-1572.
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1579
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STC 24180; ESTC S120253
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be vnpunished what is this but euen to giue a reede into thâ hande of Iesus Christ and to mocke hââ kingdom What crowning of him is it ãâã this vayne mirthe and wantonnesse bâ with bryers and thornes to pricke his head Is this the ioye spoken of by the Angel that came to declare his birthe tolde ãâã tydinges of this gladnes Is this the benefite that thou hast purchased to vs by the wonderful misterie of thyne incarnation of Emmanuel oh I am ashamed that it should euer be hearde of amongest the Iewes anâ Turks that the ChristiaÌs at that time of the yere wheÌ their Sauiour was borne giue theâ selues for many daies froÌ their ordinary âdest shamefaced behauiour from walkiââ ordinarily in their vocatioÌ studies to vâ modest shameful practises to watching ãâã waking al for vaine vnfruteful works ãâã darknes Wherin differeth our celebratioÌ ãâã the natiuity of Christ froÌ the popish Christmas that it ought to differ as farre as heaâ euen the highest heauens from the nether most hel Howe doe we looke to call Papiââ from their vaine conuersation when we aâ not our selues a foote froÌ them Is this thâ conuersation that shall strike men with aâ admiration and loue of vertue If it be required of women so to behaue them selueâ that other may be wonne thereby to God doth it not more appertaine to men who were first made to Gods glory but ought it not yet more to appeare in schollers those which are called schollers of the holy Trinity I thinke if but thus much were spoken amongst the Heathen against so great an abuse they would repeÌt in sackcloth ashes And yet I know that this people will not be brought from this vaine conuersation for they loue it delight in it wil hide it and keepe it as a iewel For without these things they complaine that it is but a dead Christmas These men will neuer confesse the truth of this doctrine till God haue sealed it with some plague or other Well thus we ought not to remember the benefit of that vnspeakeable misterye by the which we are ioyned to God and God to vs but in ioy of the spirit that vttereth forth Psalmes and Hymnes spiritual songs and such l ke We ought also to keepe in mind not this onely but all the other miracles which the Lorde wrought for the defeÌce safgard benefit of his Church so that our harts should be like the arke of witnes wherin as ther was coÌtayned for a perpetuall remembrauÌce a pot or cruse of manna Arons rod for an euerlastig witnes of the care of G d for the prouision of his Church miracles whereby ãâã testified his election of Arons posteritie ãâã to haue in our harts all those thinges which the Lord either worketh for all the church or particularly for any part thereof In the rest of the verse he rendreth a reason oâ these so great mercies euen the Lords pââ not desert but as he sayth to Moyses I wiâ haue mercy on whoÌ I will haue mercy making his mercy the cause of mercy So here his pity is made the cause and he vseth twâ wordes doubling it because his mercye ãâã manifold toward his Ezechiel in his 16. cap doth notably set out this pitie free gracâ of the Lorde toward this people in comparing him selfe to a man that seeing a pooâ helples child new borne without any helpâ of midwife or other wallowing in her bloââ of very pitie and compassion washeth as clenseth her doth all thinges needefull seâ the succour of it in such a case he then aâter bringeth her vp feeding and cherishinâ her til the be mariageable he then clotheâ her with all costly aray and setteth her oâ with all precious iewells and casting hiâ loue vppon her taketh her to be his wâââ as more at large is to be seen in that place It followeth He hath giuen a praye c In the verse going before we haue seeâ the exceeding loue of God towardes his Church testified by so many and such notable seales as he declared in the land of Egypt Where for the deliueraunce of the Church he chaunged the whole course of nature as it were in the bringing forth of a more excellent precious thing then the whole world which was at a worde made furnished he did as it were many dayes in paynes trauels labour before the birth of the Church so great a thing was it to make vnto him a Church We haue also seene his onely pitie compassion to haue bene the cause thereof Nowe it followeth in the fift verse He gaue a pray c. For although in the scripture somtime this word signifieth a portion or a part as in the 31. of the Prouerbs yet properly it signifieth a spoile which a lion getteth for him self the circuÌstance of this place needes forceth this sense For he remeÌbreth the notable benefit of the spoile of Egypt what time they weÌt out of the laÌd which although it may seeme at the first not to be so excelleÌt or notable not to be spokeÌ of particularly wheÌ the other are not seuerally reckened but together as it were in one word bouÌd vp yet we shal see this although not the only cause why the prophet namely remeÌbreth it passing thother briefly yet a sufficieÌt iust cause True it is that ãâã miracle of turning the waters of Epypt ãâã blod was woÌderful a maruelous work Foâ if we maruel at the turning of six great poâ of water into wine in the 2. of Iohn what shââ we say at the turning of whole riuers foâtaines from their nature And if we see in a few quarts of water the finger of God shaââ not the haÌd arme of the Lord appeare ãâã turning the great riuer that great riuer Nâlus all the waters besides of Egypt not ãâã fix earthen pots but in sixteene tymes ãâã thousaÌd pots of wood stone And if in the destructioÌ of one maÌ by lice or wormes the woÌderful power of God appeared what and how maruelous is the power that made sâ many as were able to destroy a mighty kingdoÌ innumerable people for if the striking with botches sores of one man destrâction of his catle astonisheth vs in the 1. ãâã Iob at the striking of all Egypt both man ãâã beast how shall we be affected or if in the blinding of one citye of Sodom the maruelous hand of God shewed it selfe what is ãâã be thought in the blindnes of al Egypt The rest of the miracles may also in like maner be set out by comparing other iudgementâ of God with them But I let them passe CoÌsider only the destruction of the first borne both of man beast Could the Lord doe a more maruelous worke for the benefite of his Church that would so pearce the hart of them as